eNidhi - A professional amateureNidhi - A professional amateurA Travel, HR and Business Blog by Shrinidhi Hande. eNidhi stands for electronic Shrinidhi. Articles
Radios are not that cheap
2007-08-26 16:25:00 Quick Summary: This post does a very brief comparison of FM and AM radios.With the rapid fall in prices of consumer electronics and home appliances, I was expecting portable radios to be pretty cheap. But recently found that they aren’t. Philips portable radio (AM and FM, not just FM) still costs Rs. 525 onwards, while entry level mobiles are available for an almost similar amount.Why so?There’re not many manufacturers who are still selling analog radio. With the advent of FM radio stations and since radios are coming built in with mobiles, mp3 players etc, there’s hardly any market left for Amplitude Modulation. However, reach of FM stations are confined to city limits and AM relays by All India Radio (AIR) stations are still is a major source of news and entertainment in most of the rural areas. Private FM channels do not have permission to broadcast news and are focused primarily on entertaining youth in metros by playing filmi music and airing shows aimed at urban audience... More About: Cheap , Adio
Supermarket Super savings-A word of Caution
2007-08-23 10:10:00 We have hundreds of supermarkets in the city, each competing with each other by offering great discounts, free items. So when you buy something from there you should get whatever discount they have declared. But the question is will you actually get it? What do you mean? Of course I get the discounts as promised when I buy and pay the bill…Are you sure? Think again. I have observed and experienced several times that there’ll be small differences in what price and offer displayed at the rack and what amount is shown in the cash bill. This difference is pretty small indeed and no one will notice unless you cross check each item and amount carefully.In other words, the displayed price doesn’t get mentioned in the cash bill and you will be paying more than what you thought you will pay for an item.When you buy 10-20 items totaling say a thousand rupee, you may never notice that an item or two were billed 10-20 rupees extra than its listed price. Because there’ll be a big queue o... More About: Word , Super , Savings , Supermarket
How to tell if a Tractor wheel is punctured?
2007-08-18 16:29:00 "I had a flat tyre” may be the sophisticated and linguistically correct way of conveying that “My vehicle is unstable as one of the wheels has developed a hole in its tube and is unable to retain air inside”. But this phenomenon is known all over India as “Puncture”.Very few people will be able to understand what a flat tyre means, but almost everyone throughout India, both literate and illiterate, irrespective of language/region/cultural barrier will understand the problem if you point at the wheel and say “puncture”.I don’t think there is any substitute word in any of our regional language for the term “puncture” (Not considering lengthy phrases like “pahiye mein se hava nikal gaya” (Hindi for: air has come out of the wheel))But then “I had a flat tyre” is quite good enough to convey your boss that you‘ll reporting be late to work.Coming back to the title, how to detect if a tractor wheel has developed a puncture?If you own a vehicle (bicycle included... More About: Wheel , Actor , Heel
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Fundamentals
2007-08-18 16:24:00 I’m preparing a series of articles on SEO (Search Engine Optimization ) and this is the first one in the series.These articles are a result of my observation, analysis, experience and study as a blogger for past one and a half years. I haven’t achived anything significant as such in blogging but have managed to secure a PR of 3 for my blog and am getting nearly 200 hits per day at my internet blog. Through this series of articles I aim to explain my readers the concept of Search Engine Optimization. If you have a blog or website it will be useful to you. Else read it to understand how search engines work.What is search engine optimization?SEO is a million dollar industry on its own, with several individuals and companies full time into it offering wide range of SEO solutions.Search Engine Optimization is all about making your blog website appear on top of search engine for a given search string. Technically, this involves understanding how search engines work and how they index t...
Rs. 10 OFF-Lifetime Offer on Samsung TV!!!
2007-08-15 07:44:00 This post only shares a small observation made by the author. No offence is meant and no conclusions should be drawn about the product by reading this.While reading newspaper on the Independence Day, I came across this ad (refer image) about Samsung Television in Times of India Hyderabad edition dated 15-Aug-2007, Page 5 I saw the field: "SPL price" which read: Rs.58990/- and then glanced above to see what the previous price was: MRP: Rs.59000/- What is the difference? Just 10 bucks. Was shocked to see the unbelievable amount of discount they were giving: INR 10 OFF on a product priced at Rs. 59000. (0.0169%) I truly couldn’t believe my eyes, as the ad claimed right in the beginning. For the sake of 60th Independence Day they could have given at least Rs 60 off, making it 0.1% So don’t miss this lifetime opportunity…Go grad one, if you wish.Note: That ad offers a free digicam which they claim is worth Rs 9990. But I evaluate 6 mega pixel, 3x optical zoom Samsung camera at arou... More About: Lifetime , Offer
MoserBaer cheap CD/DVDs-Kill Piracy
2007-08-15 01:58:00 This post aims to be your one stop information guide related to Moserbaer Cheap movie VCDs and DVDs.Quick Jump: Pricing | Collection, Availability |Negative Aspects | CommentsYou wish to watch a movie on your computer or Home theatre, what do you do?Option 1: Buy an original VCD/DVD from a branded showroom by paying several hundred rupees (Legal high quality content but expensive)Option 2: Buy a pirated VCD/DVD for say 50-100 Rupees or less (illegal, quality may not be good, but pretty cheap)Option 3: Rent a VCD/DVD for Rs.15-30 approx (Usually good quality, Watch and return it (some people make a copy of it though))Since cost is primary concern for most of middleclass people, many of us will be tempted to go for option 2 or 3 which directly or indirectly promotes piracy, when multiple illegal copies of a movie are made.Are you aware (if you've seen thier ads on TV), original VCDs and DVDs can be purchased at the cost of pirated one? Moserbaer India (BSE:MOSR, a leading digital med... More About: Piracy , Dvds , Kill
Attention! A.P.Tourism
2007-08-12 04:32:00 This post aims to assist AP tourism in applying a small (really small) correction related to tourist information. I found a signboard near Paradise recently which states distance between Runway 9 and Dhola-ri-Dhani is just one kilometer. See image.Pretty small error, nevertheless it is wrong information. Runway 9 is a carting (and such entertainment spot) off Bowenpalli area while Dhola-ri-Dhani is a Rajastani theme restaurant cum resort some 7-10 kms further north-west from Runway 9 on the Nagpur Highway. I like their punch line: AP Tourism , Happy Tourism...Other posts related to Hyderabad Tourist Places:Durgam Cheruvu | Shilparmam | Golconda Fort | Ramoji Film City | Anatagiri HillsOther Travel/Tourism Related posts: Hampi, Karnataka |Club Mahindra Resort Membership| Skanda Giri Hills | Note: Certain audio video contents may not appear properly in your mailbox. Pls check the blog for full experience-Shrinidhi Hande More About: Attention , Tent
Best of 2006-Quick recap of Posts
2007-08-12 03:40:00 Since this blog gained some visibility and readership only in early 2007, I feel like summarizing various posts published in 2006 for the benefit of new readers. This post will also help first time visitors who will not have time to read all post individually and can pick posts that interests them from this summary.There were over 53 posts published in 2006 and I’ve shortlisted 25 of them as good ones and explaining contents of each post in a sentence or two here. If that interests you, please click on the title to read the original post in a new window.Sorted by CategoryLight hearted, humor oriented posts1. Why hate hate communities?Genre: Generic thoughtsLength: Medium No of comments: 5Popularity-Hit Wrote this post after getting hundreds of mails saying so and so has created so and so community in orkut with negative opinion about this and that. I felt such things can be best ignored and this post explains my stand. 2.What this Patna gentleman is going to do with Aish's skirt?... More About: Quick , Recap , Posts
Brand building tips for Club Mahindra
2007-08-10 03:14:00 Ever since I wrote a negative article on Club Mahindra here, I’m discouraging people from enrolling for Club Mahindra’s Life membership and driving away CM’s business -Many people searching about Club Mahindra land at my blog post as it is appearing almost right below Club Mahindra official website for search queries-Details here(I don’t regret that because whatever I wrote is genuine and supported by necessary evidence/reasoning) however I feel obliged to write some tips how Club Mahindra can regain lost confidence of its members. (This is fully complementary to Club Mahindra from my side).To justify the huge amount they are charging, and to fulfill whatever they are promising before taking the money, I suggest Club Mahindra to implement the following, at the earliest:1. Commit a minimum service guarantee to your members and define a SLA (Service Level Agreement). (Currently, members must keep paying ASF (Annual Subscription Fee) etc irrespective of usage, while Club Mahind... More About: Building , Tips , Brand
Ramoji Film City-Photo Slideshow
2007-08-07 17:30:00 Being in Hyderabad and not blogging about Ramoji Film City ? It can’t be. Though I’d been to Ramoji Film city several months earlier and went again recently (to give company to my friend Santosh who was here from Delhi on work), I could never blog about RFC till date due to time constraint.In this post I’m sharing the photos taken at Ramoji Film city as a slideshow. As and when time permits, I would be publishing following articles related to Ramoji Film City.1. Process Improvement Suggestion for Ramoji Film City2. Advantages and Disadvantages of shooting a film in film cities instead of elsewhere3. A tip to delight your loved one at Ramoji Film City4. Tourist Information and tips to get maximum out of RFC5. Videos taken at Ramoji Film CitySlideshow 1: Photo s and upload courtesy: Santosh BS Slideshow 2.: Photos and upload courtesy: Santosh BS Slideshow 3: Photos and upload courtesy: Prasad Enjoy the photos and standby for further articles on Ramoji Film City.RFC official websi...
Search Engine musings
2007-08-04 06:05:00 Analyzing Blog traffic is fun. Once in a month or so I glance over my sitemeter and Google Analytics accounts to analyze the traffic of my blog. People are coming to my blog while looking for several information on net. Unfortunately, though I wish I could, it is not possible to cater each and every expectation of internet browsers. In this post sharing some incidents involving key combinations with which net surfers came to my blog and got disappointed. 1. I wrote “Summer of ‘05” (A slightly modified version of Bryan Adam’s popular “Summer of ‘69” in this post, I published some photos of Endpoint Manipal here, I wrote about my favorite lyrics lines here. All fine. But many people came to my blog while searching for lyrics of Summer of ’69 video of MAHE (Manipal Academy of Higher Education, a premier university in South India under which Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), Manipal Sikkim University and hundreds of other institutes operate.)What they were looking f... More About: Musings , Search , Search Engine , Engine , Sings
Do NOT COPY PASTE-Try this instead (tips to avoid IPR violation)
2007-08-03 21:07:00 Ctrl+C followed by Ctrl+V is very easy. Knowingly or not, Sorry to say some bloggers have been doing that, publishing contents which are not our own, copied from elsewhere. While it is good practice to share information and knowledge, claiming third party contents are one’s own without giving credit to original author constitutes outright violation of Intellectual Property Rights and in blogosphere it is known by the term Plagiarism.The purpose of this post is to show you how one can spread information/knowledge without being flagged for copyright violation, while publishing third party contents in your blog. This post only intends to provide a best practice in this regard and is not aimed at offending anyone.Step 1: Write introduction in your own words and give credit to original writer:Example: This morning I was browsing the net and I came across some useful tips on how to do this this and this. I read it in Mr. ABC’s blog [Give Blogname/link] and thought I’ll share it with... More About: Tips , Copy , Avoid , Paste , Viol
MS discontinues Office Assistants from Office 2007 onwards. Goodbye Scribbl
2007-08-02 06:33:00 Executive Summary: Microsoft has discontinued Office Assistants from Office 2007 onwards. This post gives an illustrated and descriptive account in this regard.Hello every body,My name is Scribble, The Cat. I was one of the several office agents in Microsoft’s Office Application. We took birth with Office 2000 and have been volunteering to help users with useful information whenever we felt they needed help (Read: Whenever we realized that these stupid users can’t learn the right usage themselves) using office application.I was helping MS word (and other office applications as well) users in their day to day work. (Whenever someone started the document typing “Dear abc,” I used to peep in from no where and ask them “Seems like you’re typing a letter, should I help?” (As if I know what they plan to write and write the entire letter myself-On the second thought, trust me, I could really help people write letters-I’ve seen thousands of love letters, hate letters, resign... More About: Goodbye , Disc
Club Mahindra Article tops search Engine
2007-08-01 21:13:00 After beating several leading websites for Rejection Handling, my article is topping the search engine again, this time for club mahindra. Refer images. Have managed to enter top 5 slot for search strings related to Club Mahindra. It’s so close to Club Mahindra official website that many people are coming to my blog instead of checking out club Mahindra official website. The post tells why it is not a good decision to opt for Club Mahindra's life membership and justifies it with necessary facts and reasoning. It has also received highest number of comments in this blog for any post. Several readers have shared their experience (by and large negative) about Club Mahindra. If you haven't read that post, read it here. On Google.com (2nd position out of 897,000 matches: Live link)...btb checked out Safari browser recently. Didn't find anything unique at first use. Exploring more on it.On Google.co.in (4th position out of 835,000 matches-Live link)Google.co.il (Mirror image- 2nd pos... More About: Tops , Article , Search , Search Engine , Engine
Manufacturing vs Services Industry-@ a glance
2007-07-31 05:06:00 Giving a quick comparision of phrases we often get to hear in a production industry as compared to a service industry. While the former has been in existance for centuries, later is growing at high pace and posing a threat to manufacturing industry. Who will survive? Only time will tell...Have a look...Sl.No.Non IT (Say Manufacturing Industry )IT (Services Industry)1.Buy 50 tones of steel, heat treat it and give to production unit Go to a college, get 50 freshers, train them on XYZ and allocate them into project team2.We need to export 5 containers full of abc to that country. Book the vessel and ask warehouse to release the goodsWe need 3 abc consultants onsite. Identify the resources and initiate their VISA/WP3.Production is halted because machine is broken and we don’t have sparesDelivery is delayed because key resource has quit and we’re yet to find a replacement4.Opening stock is dwindling , order fresh raw materialNot enough people on bench. Go on a hiring spree5.Machines a... More About: Glance , Turin
About the ladies who call me every day
2007-07-23 18:22:00 I haven’t written anything about ladies etc in my blog. Let me break that trend and reveal some secrets in this post. Trying some humor after a long time. Hope you like it.Of late several ladies have been calling me, almost on a daily basis, not that my market value has catapulted overnight or any such reasons, just because I’ve chosen not to fall pray to any of the marketing strategies adopted by some companies.My most favorite lady caller is Miss Call er Tune. She is very much upset (when people are upset they stop calling,but this strange lady is not like that) with me because I’ve not opted for Hutch’s caller tune subscription. She calls me everyday and complains about this. Once I accept her call, before I can say anything, she starts speaking like below:"क्या यार् जब् भी कोइ तुम्हे फॉन् कर्ता है वही पुरानी ट्रि०ग् ट्रि०ग् सुनाई देती है| ... More About: Ladies , Dies , Adie
Why Free Reliance Data card offer makes no sense…
2007-07-21 20:29:00 First Half of this article shares my experience at Reliance Webworld and second half tells you why I did not buy Reliance Data card. [Jump to Second Half Directly]There's a free Reliance netConnect Data card offer with most of the Notebooks (HP Pavilion, Lenovo etc).As one such HP Pavilion buyer who was entitled for a free Reliance netConnect data card, I did some research on the feasibility of this offer. This post tells you why this “free” data card is not so free and doesn’t make sense to pay over 3700 Rs for this “free offer”.I had read several negative opinion about this product and subsequent service in several discussion forums and communities so was extremely reluctant to spend Rs 3700 (The cost of so called “Free ” data card and three month mandatory subscription.)However I decided to check out the offer and registered in HP website for the claim. After few days my registration was conveyed to Reliance and I got several mails from different executives in variou... More About: Card , Offer
Can't Tatas buy Volvo from Ford?
More articles from this author:2007-07-21 09:24:00 Update: I was wrong in my understanding. Volvo cars and Volvo trucks are different entities and Volvo Trucks is not for sale. This nullifies the very purpose of writing this post but you may read on. Thanks for Rajiv and others who corrected me.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Original Write up follows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~This article is a quick analysis of happenings in world Automobile market with particular reference to Ford ’s interest selling off its subsidiaries: Volvo, Jaguar and Land Rover. Background Information (for those who have not been following recent developments in world Automobile market): Detroit based Automobile Major Ford Motor (NYSE:F) has been running in loss for quite sometime and is reportedly looking forward to sell of some of the other brands it owns: Sweden based Volvo (Nasdaq: VOLV), Jaguar and Land Rover (Europe).(BBC report says Ford has denied such possibilities. Ford has already sold off Auston Martin in March 2007 for US$ 848 million-BBC Report) News is that India... More About: Tata 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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